They say it's better safe than sorry. Or measure twice cut once. What I did was just opposite and it is very unusual to me as I always (mostly) try my best or at least have focus on what I'm expecting as out come when I start doing something. With this transmission I made the only (bigger) short cut in this project and it came haunting me before I even got that thing out of garage. But as my buddy Teemu said, better now than in Belarus. Definitely.

I wrote in my previous post that the transmission has no reverse. And now we already know why and I actually got a rebuild kit for it yesterday, so only thing I need is some inspiration and couple of days... below is a short slide show about what went wrong...

Setback but after all, pretty small one. And now the tranny is better than before. Only one question remains? When are we going to throw the dart? Summer is allmoust over allready... Or should we rethink our plans and drive to Artic circle, dive into the snow and drive back? Or go icefishing, in our case that would mean driving Signet into midle of the lake, use exhaust vapors to melt hole into the ice and throw a fishingrod into the lake and leave. Maybe comeback next year too see if we catched anything. I hate fishing.

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27/8/2017 01:19:54 am

Well, The other day jacked Signet back on it's wheels, hit the key, filled the transmission fluid and with cold sweat on my forehead shifted to reverse. I backed up. Shifted to drive, it rolled forward. Shifted reverse and it rolled reverse direction. No weird noise, no slippage (I tried
standing on brakes and accelerating against converter )... Can't wait to get it out on the highway! I'm very busy these days, so we'll have to wait some time, but at least the tranny is now back in the car. It's something... Arctic circle sounds like a plan...but so does the dart, so... We sure will figure out something smart!